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. 2008 Jan;25(1):4-7.
doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.44129.

Profile of respiratory problems in patients presenting to a referral pulmonary clinic

Angira Dasgupta  1 , Anirban Bagchi, Saikat Nag, Sujan Bardhan, Parthasarathi Bhattacharyya
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Profile of respiratory problems in patients presenting to a referral pulmonary clinic

Angira Dasgupta et al. Lung India. 2008 Jan.

Abstract

Analysis of OPD data of 2012 patients in a referral pulmonary clinic at Kolkata was done following a protocol-based approach. Obstructive airway diseases (COPD and asthma) were the most common (43%) problem followed by infective lung diseases (15%) including tuberculosis, bronchogenic carcinoma (8%), ILD (4%), haemopty-sis of undiagnosed etiology (4.5%), chronic cough of undiagnosed etiology (6.5%) and pleural diseases (4.6%). Other diseases like obstructive sleep apnoea, sarcoid-osis, systemic diseases with lung involvements etc., and non respiratory problems formed the rest (14.4%).

Keywords: Asthma; COPD; Cough; Hemoptysis; ILD.; OPD Statistics; Undiagnosed etiology.

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The Protocol ≠ All the patients had Routine Hemogram, Blood Sugar and chest X-ray.
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